Dietary practices in nutritional transition: The case of Malaysian urban Chinese

In this study involving 336 urban Chinese adults, more than 40% belong to at least the second generation in Malaysia. The result shows the persistence of several Chinese traditional dietary habits. Almost all the subjects take rice daily and an assortment of noodles weekly. A wide variety of vegetab...

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Published in:Ecology of food and nutrition 1998-01, Vol.36 (6), p.463-489
Main Authors: Khor, G.L., Hsu-Hage, B.H., Wahlqvist, M.L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biological and medical sciences
Dietary practices
Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology
Malaysian urban Chinese adults
Medical sciences
Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement
nutritional transition
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Summary:In this study involving 336 urban Chinese adults, more than 40% belong to at least the second generation in Malaysia. The result shows the persistence of several Chinese traditional dietary habits. Almost all the subjects take rice daily and an assortment of noodles weekly. A wide variety of vegetables are consumed frequently. Soup is consumed daily or weekly. Steaming and stir frying are preferred methods of cooking. Majority reported adding salt lightly in cooking, eating little fat on meat, and not adding sugar to tea or coffee, but they use sweetened condensed milk. Urban Malaysian Chinese do not appear to manifest a high-fat high-meat diet that is becoming characteristic of rapidly developing countries. Their dietary practices seem to reflect an inclination towards the "behavioural change" dietary pattern away from the "degenerative disease" pattern according to the concept of nutritional transition as described by Popkin.
ISSN:0367-0244
1543-5237
DOI:10.1080/03670244.1998.9991532